nyc

doves'
'cedar room'
beats out my steps


and -

the empire
state building
and the chrysler
building and
central park
and the wall street
suits and
the homeless
and the schizo
phrenics
and the families
and their tourist photo taking
children
and the smiles
and frowns and
hotdogs and
pizza and budweiser
and the squinting
lights and
pretzels and the stranger
who stopped a child from falling over
without taking
his eyes off
his paper
when the train jerked to a stop
on the subway
with its million universes
each going in a straight
line off
to some different
star

- envelop me
to some anonymity

i power on now

i am
part of this
heartbeat

this
is
it.